Sal Island in One Day: Explore Locally with a Professional & Informative Guide
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8 Ratings
Santa Maria

The optimal way to familiarize yourself with the island is through the local residents. We stand out for our vibrant, instructional, secure, and extremely professional service.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Ponta Preta Beach - As soon as we meet, we´ll start the tour and our first destination is “Ponta Preta” (Ponta means edge and Preta means black). At this spot you´ll witness a contrast between white natural sand dunes and dark coloured volcanic rocks entering the sea.
    This amazing combination creates a unique phenomenon of huge and beautiful waves. And this is the reason why this location is the stage for the performance of water sports competitions like surf, windsurf and others of a world known level.

  • Praia de Santa Maria - One of the most beautifull beach of Cape Verde.

  • Murdeira - Murdeira is geographically located at the centre of the island. It´s Bay is bathed with crystal waters and filled with corals enabling marvellous conditions for the practice of snorkelling “include”.
    Apart from the mention above, we can easily see “Monte Leão” from there, one of the greatest marks of the island.

  • Espargos - Well, now is time to go more to the north and meet with the City of Espargos, where you we’ll be in a local tour ending in a panoramic view of the city through the belvedere.

  • Terra Boa - More to the west of the island is “Terra Boa”, the only land for growing crops and there we can enjoy another spectacle of nature, a “Mirage” in the middle of the desert.

  • Buracona - Olho Azul - To the East of Palmeira, we can spot Buracona a place with natural pools and an incredible rocky landscape of volcanic origin. This combination allows us to enjoy the wonderful phenomenon called “Blue Eye”.
    From 10.00 p.m. to 1.00 p.m. the sun shines inside a cave 25 meters’ deep, allowing us to glimpse the image of a shiny blue eye staring at the majestic sky.

  • Palmeira - The next stop is the fishing village of Palmeira, where we can find the only port of the island.
    Palmeira is an industrialized zone and it is extremely important to the local economy.

  • Espargos - In Espargos we have a break for lunch at the Local restaurant where you are able to taste a typical dish or enjoy one of the best pizzas in town. (drink and lunch not include)

  • Pedra de Lume - we can catch sight of lemon sharks in the “Baia de Parda” around 4.00 p.m., please be reminded to wear appropriate shoes.

  • Pedra de Lume Beach - we will continue the tour with destination to Pedra de Lume, where the famous Salinas (Salt pans) are found inside of an extinct volcano crater.
    In the Salinas you can bath in the therapeutic waters within the same.

What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Use of snorkeling equipment
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • All fees and/or taxes
Location
Santa Maria
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(8 Ratings)
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567anetan
Oct 22, 2023
Perfect Sal Island trip👍 - In one word great! Pleasant and kind Mr. Ola, who offered us a trip on the beach near the hotel and told us everything about the trip. The trip itself went great, pleasant guides, great places and a visit to a restaurant with good food. As a bonus, there is a photographer who will give you eternal memories of this trip. We were full of experiences for the whole day and thank you very much for that!
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Mikaelb243
Oct 18, 2023
A big thank-you - Thanks to Dany for this wonderful day with my daughters. For sharing your good humor with us and giving you an incredible encounter, As I told you, if one day you come to France and pass through our place we will show you our region😉
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Joanwr8984nd
Oct 15, 2023
10/10 experience when in Sal - We went on a private Sal island tour with 4 persons with guide Jhon today. We had a great experience. We would like to thank Jhon again for the amazing day. If you’re going to Sal, I would absolutely recommend to book the island tour and ask especially for him 🙏. Also had amazing fish at our lunch stop. Thank you Jhon, and Ola tours for the amazing day 🫶🏼
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Maxines889
Sep 20, 2023
Jeep fun - We did one of Alexs island tours and had an incredible day out, like Alex the team who took us around the island were lovely and very informative. We would recommend the tour but your back knows about it the back of the jeep the next day
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Experience814671
Jun 6, 2023
Delivered everything it promised. - Just returned from the Sal Day Tour with SPOT travel. It delivered everything it promised, all of the guides on the three vehicle tour were helpful and informative but a special mention to our driver and guide Cula, who ensured everybody was looked after. There seems to be a lot of tour companies doing this trip, however I would recommend giving this company a try. Also, a mention to Pablo who we booked the trip through, you'll find him most mornings on the walkway by the Morabeze Hotel.
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W2807nonicolef
Mar 31, 2023
Top guide Esmael! - We have had a lovely day over the Island. Our guide Esmael was top! Hé made this dat with telling is a lot about history, about the wat peppel live. Thanks!
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Francescadr85
Aug 2, 2022
Sal tour with Lindin tour or Lindim tour - to avoid! - If you want to have lovely memories of Sal and capoverdian people do not take the tour with Lindin tour. We booked the island tour with them unfortunately. They lied to us since the beginning. Out of the 12 stops they list you, they made only 3: Murdeira, Salinas and shark bay, plus a three-hour (!!!) stop at a restaurant in Palmeira. We did not get to see Palmeira, kite beach, Santa Maria, Espargos, Buracona, which are the land marks. It has been truly disappointing. The guide did not give us much explanation and when we highlighted that we did not see what we were told we would have seen, they said: “we drove you there”. Really rude people. Not enjoyable at all. They were just looking forward to take us back to the resort. I would recommend to avoid this tour!
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